Group of three putti making music

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Maker

(artist)
1607-1678

Title

Group of three putti making music

Date of Production

1620 - 1678

Medium

black chalk, pen and grey and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 14.2 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

Object Number

D.1952.RW.3192

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Inscriptions

Watermark: Support (historic): upper centre edge, top of a small fleur-de-lis emerging from two petals.

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: and Verso lower left corners, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, cut off: "E. Quellinus". Verso: upper centre, graphite: "P. 46"; lower right, brown ink: "P. Q" or "P. a". Support (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: "46".

Provenance

Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre and Sandrine Vézilier-Dussart (eds.), Érasme Quellin. Dans le sillage de Rubens, exh. cat., Musée de Flandre, Cassel, 2014
no. 40 in a catalogue raisonné of drawings at the end of the catalogue
no. 39 is erroneously also listed as Witt collection, inv. 3192, but it is actually a drawing in the British Museum, SL,5227.107
Baudouin, F., ‘From Sketch to Sculpture: The working process used by sculptors in the Southern Netherlands during the 17th and 18th centuries’, in 17th and 18th century drawings: the Van Herck Collection, Claire Baisier et al. (eds.), Brussels, 2000, pp. 23-48
p. 35
De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre, ‘Erasmus II Quellinus (1607-1678) als tekenaar,’ Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen, 1986, pp. 213-71
p. 259
fig. 48
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De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre, ‘Erasmus II Quellinus (1607-1678). Leven en werken’, PhD diss., 5 vols., University of Ghent, 1982
no. T11
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 129
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